The docs page on ViewMatrix states:
With the setting ViewMatrix->Automatic, explicit forms for the matrix
m can be found using AbsoluteOptions[g,ViewMatrix].
However, as you mentioned this does not work and the docs are
evidently wrong here.
I tried everything I could think of, but this is a hard nut to crack.
On Feb 26, 2:56 pm, Sebastien Roy <r... at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> When viewing any graphics such as:
>
> s=PolyhedronData["Dodecahedron"];
>
> AbsoluteOption works as advertised with PlotRange, but not ViewMatrix:
>
> AbsoluteOptions[s,PlotRange] (* give you the actual plot range, no=
t
> "All" *)
>
> AbsoluteOptions[s,ViewMatrix] (* give you "Automatic", not the
> actual value *)
>
> I understand that the actual PlotRange value is known to the kernel,
> but not the ViewMatrix, which is handled in the notebook.
>
> Does anybody know how to get the ViewMatrix value out of the Notebook?
>
> Sebastien